# Read the first page of The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon Read the opening of The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon free, no signup. A clairvoyant criminal in a dystopian London is captured and imprisoned. - Page: https://uncovered.ink/read/the-bone-season-samantha-shannon - Genre: Fantasy - Year: 2013 - ISBN: 9781639732234 - Read it blind (cover and title hidden): https://uncovered.ink/?b=9781620401408&s=read-page - Buy: https://bookshop.org/a/125786/9781639732234 - Borrow: https://search.worldcat.org/search?q=9781639732234 ## The opening I like to imagine there were more of us in the beginning. Not many, I suppose. But more than there are now. We are the minority the world does not accept. Not outside of fantasy, and even that's blacklisted. We look like everyone else. Sometimes we act like everyone else. In many ways, we are like everyone else. We are everywhere, on every street. We live in a way you might consider normal, provided you don't look too hard. Not all of us know what we are. Some of us die without ever knowing. Some of us know, and we never get caught. But we're out there. Trust me. I had lived in that part of London that used to be called Islington since I was eight. I attended a private school for girls, leaving at sixteen to work. That was in the year 2056. AS 127, if you use the Scion calendar. It was expected of young men and women to scratch out a living wherever they could, which was usually behind a counter of one sort or another. There were plenty of jobs in the service industry. My father thought I would lead a simple life; that I was bright but unambitious, complacent with whatever work life threw at me. My father, as usual, was wrong. From the age of sixteen I had worked in the criminal underworld of Scion London—SciLo, as we called it on the streets. I worked among ruthless gangs of voyants, all willing to floor each other to survive. All part of a citadel-wide syndicate headed by the Underlord. Pushed to the edge of society, we were forced into crime to prosper. And so we became more hated. We made the stories true. I had my little place in the chaos. I was a mollisher, the protégée of a mime-lord. My boss was a man named Jaxon Hall, the mime-lord responsible for the I-4 area. There were six of us in his direct employ. We called ourselves the Seven Seals. I couldn’t tell my father. He thought I was an assistant at an oxygen bar, a badly paid but legal occupation. It was an easy lie. He wouldn’t have understood if I’d told him why I spent my time with criminals. He didn’t know that I belonged with them. More than I belonged with him. I was nineteen years old the day my life changed. Mine was a familiar name on the streets by that time. After a tough week at the black market, I’d planned to spend the weekend with my father. Jax didn’t twig why I needed time off—for him, there was nothing and no one outside the syndicate—but he didn’t have a family like I did. Not a living family, anyway. And although my father and I had never been close, I still felt I should keep in touch. A dinner here, a phone call there, a present at Novembertide. The only hitch was his endless list of questions. What job did I have? Who were my friends? Where was I living? I couldn’t answer. The truth was dangerous. He might have sent me to Tower Hill himself if he’d known what I really did. Maybe I should have told him the truth. Maybe it would have killed him. ## Books with a similar feel - [A Darker Shade of Magic by V. E. Schwab](https://uncovered.ink/read/a-darker-shade-of-magic-v-e-schwab.md) - [The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin](https://uncovered.ink/read/the-fifth-season-n-k-jemisin.md) - [What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher](https://uncovered.ink/read/what-moves-the-dead-t-kingfisher.md) - [Wait for You by J. Lynn](https://uncovered.ink/read/wait-for-you-j-lynn.md) - [The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss](https://uncovered.ink/read/the-name-of-the-wind-patrick-rothfuss.md) - [The Lives of Saints by Leigh Bardugo](https://uncovered.ink/read/the-lives-of-saints-leigh-bardugo.md) --- Source: Uncovered (https://uncovered.ink). A short sample shown for reading and discovery. Rights holders can request removal at https://uncovered.ink/takedown.